All the pipelines, Registry, and CI/CD built so far assume "infrastructure exists somewhere". That infrastructure—endpoints, pipelines, IAM roles, buckets—clicked manually in the console becomes non-reproducible with environment drift. IaC (Infrastructure as Code) defines infrastructure as code for version management, reproducibility, and automation. Beyond SageMaker Pipelines, there are tools for broader orchestration needs.
Today we cover CloudFormation/CDK (IaC), Step Functions, EventBridge triggers, and Amazon MWAA (managed Airflow). MLA-C01 tests "which tool fits this orchestration/IaC requirement?" by comparing tools